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In addition, there are a few countries which use the term "Democratic Republic" in the name and have a good record of holding free or relatively free general elections and were rated "flawed democracy" or "full democracy" in the Democracy Index, such as the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste , the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ...
In Federalist No. 10, James Madison rejected "pure democracy" in favour of representative democracy, which he called "a republic". [96] There were similar debates in many other democratizing nations. [97] In contemporary usage, the term democracy refers to a government chosen by the people, whether it is direct or representative. [98]
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a party or candidate for at least the short-term.
More broadly, in Federalist No. 10, Madison distinguished a democracy from a republic. Jefferson warned that "an elective despotism is not the government we fought for." [80] Madison wrote: In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents.
It should be said that the Republican base would distinguish between these democratic norms and America’s founding principles. James Madison and John Adams were explicitly critical of democracy.
A federal republic is a federation of states with a republican form of government. At its core, the literal meaning of the word republic when used to reference a form of government means a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader, such as a president, rather than by a monarch or any hereditary aristocracy .
It’s the differences that make the difference. MAGA is a populist movement. It’s focused on direct appeals to "the people" and is skeptical of institutions seen as elitist or out of touch.